Market Insights

Traditional notions of insurance are nearly extinct, and the brave new world of retained risk has given new meaning to the notion of self-insurance as commercial consumers become the majority.

There are many ways to find out if a contractor has inflated a claim or taken other measures to secure gains on a project that are not warranted.

Although the events that trigger winter claims take place during the winter months, most insurance companies deal with them throughout the year.

Appraisal is a tool widely-used to settle disputes involving the value of a loss, and it has gained popularity over the past decade as a relatively quick, supposedly inexpensive, and substantially final method of determining damages.

One does not hear much about a hidden loss of Katrina.

This is not the article we originally envisioned writing when the editors and publisher of Claims convened for our editorial calendar planning session six months ago.